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Unless the NPC is unkillable due to importance to plot, or killing it insta fails the player

Huh?

Nothing of import, princess

Video game worldbuilding story logic. It can get kinda weird.

Ex: What makes more sense, a blood farm putting a bounty on a blood bag thief or the vampire who owns it putting the bounty?

I don't think I will be able to figure this one out on my own. I need help of a professional. @RepresentingEnvy

I would like to defer to the second dumbest person on the forum to answer this query: @SailusGebel.

Wait what?

If it is scripted for an NPC to put a bounty, it makes sense. Even if NPC does not respawn.

That's true. Yeah, that's what I don't understand here. So why is it dumb?

Well if the NPC can only do what it is coded to do I guess that makes sense. The story I am reading the game isn't really a game so the NPCs are sentient.

Indeed

Can't you just make a headcanon that NPCs are influenced by their scripts? More on that, NPCs in MMOs respawn. There are probably some MMOs where NPCs don't respawn, but I can't remember any. And such MMOs are a minority, I think.

I didn't know you were talking about a story. By the way, which story?

Oh, I am talking about the ritualist, maybe book 3? Sailus is proving my point. Having a story that is a game but it... surprise surprise... not really a game makes readers frusterated because they are defeating their own worldbuilding.